Unity of Love and Intellect

It means: “Allah (Subhanahu wa ta'ala) guides to (the gnosis of) His light whom He wills.” Here, knowledge itself becomes possible through guidance, and the purpose of guidance is light, so without light there is neither guidance nor knowledge.

In this regard, the error apparently occurred in knowledge, and not in the process of planting. So apparently knowledge has come before action. However, in this case (where the importance lies on an esoteric basis), the error actually occurred in guidance, and guidance isn't possible without light, so light has come before guidance, and guidance has come before action.

The example is such that if a fruitless tree is planted and the purpose is to obtain fruit, even before planting, the purpose is lost, and the goal cannot be achieved.

A day out of many in a period of time, when a humble servant, was wandering around looking for a nest to rest, but found none. However, after years of wandering, it was realized that neither a nest nor this time remained in the eternal destination. Then it was asked, “What reason there might be that in search of a nest, time be spent and grain consumed?”

What is discussed in this treatise are not the words of the intellects, nor the words of lovers, but the words of unifiers, and the purpose of this treatise is not to discuss the words of philosophers and wise men, nor the words of mysticism and theology. It is indeed to discuss the principles of unity between these ideologies, and we begin this journey thus...

So whoever has humbled himself, the path will be made smooth for him and arrogance will disgust him. Otherwise, only the path of loss will be revealed: "But the one who corrupts himself (in sins and suppresses virtue) is doomed indeed." So the path of salvation is only in purifying the soul, and to be able to walk on the path of purification, one can only do so with humility and modesty, and not the opposite.

Since the beginning of the path was a descent, one cannot walk on it until one has made humility and modesty his profession, and cleansed the soul from all impurity: "Indeed the one who purifies his (ill-commanding) self (from all vain and vicious desires and cultivates in it virtue and piousness) succeeds."

... and because the stages of creation have descended from perfection, as Allah (Subhanahu wa ta’ala) says: “Indeed We have created man in the best constitution (equipoised in the finest proportion) / then We returned him to the lowest state of the low.” so the eternal path has been made clear from descent to perfection, as said: “Indeed, we too are Allah’s (belongings) and to Him are we to return.”

Praise be to Allah (Subhanahu wa ta’ala) whom no one can attain true knowledge of, and how could one attain true knowledge of Him as He has created the Perfect Human Being, the outcome of which intellect is not only bewildered but also desolate in its creation. Salutations of peace of every creature created in creation, be upon the Perfect Human Being whom Allah (Subhanahu wa ta’ala) has perfected.